He gets called pragmatic a lot but he isn't a pragmatist, he's as much of an ideologue as the likes of Guardiola and Bielsa. It's more important to him to be the "anti-football" manager than it is to do what is best to win the game, there is no way that a team as talented as Spurs has to play like that once they take the lead against teams such as Palace and Fulham.
He pulled the exact same shit so often with us and people would say we were unlucky because we missed chances, ignoring that they were all when we were level but as soon as we went ahead we stopped playing repeatedly and invited pressure for which we often got punished. Unless he can take his ego out of the equation, which will never happen, he's done at the very top level.